East Asia – +0. Have no idea where the high end estimates come from – Japan and Korea are already fully developed and have maxed out their FLynn potential, while China’s indicators on education, nutrition, and social well-being – as is typical in Communist countries – are considerably ahead of its GDP per capita. And the former are more important for IQ than pure wealth. I suspect any further marginal FLynn gains will be canceled out by dysgenics, which have been acting on China since the 1960s (Wang et al., 2016).

India – +10. Currently around 80 according to both IQ tests and PISA. I suspect India’s average genotypic IQ is ~95, though strongly differentiated by caste. However, the dysgenics trend seems to be strong, acting via both region (dirt poor and highly illiterate Bihar is the most fertile, while Kerala with its competent governance and historical achievements in mathematics is the least fertile) and caste (scheduled castes have highest fertility, while the Brahmin share of the population is declining since at least the 1930s).

Latin America – -3. Few of these countries can be described as truly Third World, especially the more significant ones, and nutrition is quite adequate (e.g. Brazil consumes as much meat per capita as Germany). As such, I suspect most of its FLynn gains have already been actualized! Meanwhile, dysgenic trends amongst the elites are strong, while the lower IQ, more indigenous underclass continues to expand rapidly.

Arab/Muslim countries – -3. A lot really depends on whether they start to seriously clamp down on first cousin marriages, which could raise IQs by as much as 10 points. A few like Tajikistan are taking this seriously, but most are not, and first cousin marriages remain stubbornly high. As such, Arab and Muslim IQs will probably decline due to dysgenics and brain drain arising from future geopolitical convulsions (according to some calculations, solar is already reaching cost parity with fossil fuels; what happens when countries like Saudi Arabia lose their oil rents?).

Australia – +0. Agree with the FLynn experts – any modest dysgenics are cancelled out by their cognitively elitist immigration policy.

Eastern Europe – -3. Less likely to be inundated with Third World immigrants, at least so long as Germany doesn’t become a total dump, but East-Central Europe has already maxed out Flynn, continues to experience brain drain, and Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria in particular have a Gypsy problem. Russia and Ukraine might gain a couple of points if, as expected, their Soviet-legacy alcoholization epidemics continue to recede; but Russia, in particular, has immigration issues of its own (Central Asia = Mexico), while Ukraine is bleeding out brains and will in all likelihood long continue to do so. Finally, as in Western Europe, fertility patterns are dysgenic in all these countries.

West-Middle Europe – -4. Strong dysgenics, and huge IQ hit from immigration, but at least for now gets many of the more intelligent Mediterranean Europeans.

West in general – -4.

Southern Europe – -6. Triple whammy from Third World immigration, brain drain to northern Europe, and possibly the most strongly dysgenic fertility patterns in the world.

USA – -3. Latin America will of course continue exerting downwards pressure, but dysgenics amongst White Americans is relatively mild, it attracts the world’s cognitive crème de la crème, the Hispanic baby boom has subsided following the Great Recession, and Trump is promising a Big Beautiful Wall. So I am considerably more optimistic about the US than most. Furthermore, if Europe truly goes belly up, the US may even get a big cognitive boost from the richer Europeans fleeing the fruits of their earlier political choices.

(according to some calculations, solar is already reaching cost parity with fossil fuels; what happens when countries like Saudi Arabia lose their oil rents?)

As a cautious optimist I would say that it on the one hand will lead to a collapse of the current order and lead to massive losses in living standards in the most oil dependent countries. However, and this is more important, there also lies a chance in it. The end of oil could force the people in these countries to rethink their traditions and scrap them partially due to economic pressure. the Muslim world currently has the lowest female labor force participation rates, which keeps both fertility high and cousin marriage prevalent. Once they will be forced to actually work for their life instead of being pampered by oil, more females will have to work, which will change the whole game. Probably that shock will be so severe, that fertility in the currently most backward islamic countries will drop to extremely low levels.

"Once they will be forced to actually work for their life instead of being pampered by oil, more females will have to work, which will change the whole game. "

I'm going to try to keep this short (because drive by posters on this site are a wordy lot).

But I don't think this is going to be possible. Technology has changed a lot. Germany has higher wages than most of the Eurozone, and is the manufacturing center of the EU (such that is, compared to China, Korea, and Japan which German industry is protected from while getting to feast on the Greeks and Portugese).

How exactly would middle easterners be competitive in the world labor market? I think rather they would find that no one wants that product at any price.

Frankly I don't know what they do in the long run. Agriculture really isn't an option. I'm fairly certain they aren't going to be a manufacturing center. What services could they sell?

Tourism... uh I'm thinking this one is a no go. Yeah, yeah, pyramids got it. But I think Islam means no middle eastern nation sans Israel ever makes tourism a revenue center a la Paris and London. Hmmm you know regarding those cities...

I own a 5k solar rooftop system in one of the best solar energy locations in North America. Despite that, it would not be an economic capital investment without the massive subsidies and tax credits I received from various governments. Some studies show that solar systems do not even repay the energy cost of building and installing them: they certainly do not come close to the 12-1 ratio necessary to maintain modern civilization.

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“I suspect India’s average genotypic IQ is ~95, though strongly differentiated by caste.”

Jason Malloy thinks the evidence is against this:

“the general picture is pretty clear: researchers rarely find large caste difference in IQ in India, and ‘ethnic’ subpopulations in India almost never exhibit IQ scores typical for Western Europe. So ubiquitous HBDer assertions about Subcontinental intellectual heterogeneity and Brahmin supremacy are… problematic.”

Although Jason Malloy is a big authority, this claim does go against a lot of what we thought we think we knew about India (though India does seem to have a habit of inverting a lot of what we might call HBD "conventional wisdom"). Still, we can only put a limited weight on a couple of comments on a blog, since we don't know the specific details (sample size, representation, etc) of the studies Malloy looked at.

"I suspect India’s average genotypic IQ is ~95, though strongly differentiated by caste."

Jason Malloy thinks the evidence is against this:

"the general picture is pretty clear: researchers rarely find large caste difference in IQ in India, and ‘ethnic’ subpopulations in India almost never exhibit IQ scores typical for Western Europe. So ubiquitous HBDer assertions about Subcontinental intellectual heterogeneity and Brahmin supremacy are… problematic."

Although Jason Malloy is a big authority, this claim does go against a lot of what we thought we think we knew about India (though India does seem to have a habit of inverting a lot of what we might call HBD “conventional wisdom”). Still, we can only put a limited weight on a couple of comments on a blog, since we don’t know the specific details (sample size, representation, etc) of the studies Malloy looked at.

You overestimate Indian IQ by a huge margin, none of those Oversea Indian groups are even middle class inside India, they are way above average inside India. Your average Indians are simply too poor to move out of India in the first place. Consider 1)the current literacy rate of India is only 74.04%. 2) the current mean years of schooling of Indian is only 4.4 years!!! A college educated Indian is not not simply an elite in India, they are super-duper elite.

(according to some calculations, solar is already reaching cost parity with fossil fuels; what happens when countries like Saudi Arabia lose their oil rents?)

As a cautious optimist I would say that it on the one hand will lead to a collapse of the current order and lead to massive losses in living standards in the most oil dependent countries. However, and this is more important, there also lies a chance in it. The end of oil could force the people in these countries to rethink their traditions and scrap them partially due to economic pressure. the Muslim world currently has the lowest female labor force participation rates, which keeps both fertility high and cousin marriage prevalent. Once they will be forced to actually work for their life instead of being pampered by oil, more females will have to work, which will change the whole game. Probably that shock will be so severe, that fertility in the currently most backward islamic countries will drop to extremely low levels.

“Once they will be forced to actually work for their life instead of being pampered by oil, more females will have to work, which will change the whole game. ”

I’m going to try to keep this short (because drive by posters on this site are a wordy lot).

But I don’t think this is going to be possible. Technology has changed a lot. Germany has higher wages than most of the Eurozone, and is the manufacturing center of the EU (such that is, compared to China, Korea, and Japan which German industry is protected from while getting to feast on the Greeks and Portugese).

How exactly would middle easterners be competitive in the world labor market? I think rather they would find that no one wants that product at any price.

Frankly I don’t know what they do in the long run. Agriculture really isn’t an option. I’m fairly certain they aren’t going to be a manufacturing center. What services could they sell?

Tourism… uh I’m thinking this one is a no go. Yeah, yeah, pyramids got it. But I think Islam means no middle eastern nation sans Israel ever makes tourism a revenue center a la Paris and London. Hmmm you know regarding those cities…

Only the German motor trade is protected. Non food, non motorcar tariffs in the EU are well below the WTO averages, usually zero. (Which leaves the UK Brexit negotiators a rather tough job getting better trade deals and still protect the landed gentry - which will happen).

Flynn effect will kick in big time once the Arab women have to go to work.

"I suspect India’s average genotypic IQ is ~95, though strongly differentiated by caste."

Jason Malloy thinks the evidence is against this:

"the general picture is pretty clear: researchers rarely find large caste difference in IQ in India, and ‘ethnic’ subpopulations in India almost never exhibit IQ scores typical for Western Europe. So ubiquitous HBDer assertions about Subcontinental intellectual heterogeneity and Brahmin supremacy are… problematic."

Mr. Rec1men, changing the subject, Lippa et al's study, "Sex differences in mental rotation and line angle judgments are positively associated with gender equality and economic development across 53 nations", indicates that Indians have the lowest score in the Visual-spatial ability worldwide. It seems to me that the Indians, even those of the high castes, are like the Jews, excellent for serial memorization and verbal-abstract reasoning and bad in visual spatial reasoning. This is in line with the Talent project, which in the 1960s indicated that Americans of northern European ancestry have the best scores on visual-spatial tests, better than the East Asians. It is also in line with the Wais III standardization, where Finns have better scores on the Block-Design subtest than the Americans, but have lower scores on other sub-tests. It is in line with popular knowledge that northern Europeans and East Asians are better engineers, while Jews and Indians excel at abstract math. On the Johnson and Bouchard scale, do you think Indians are more verbal than rotational (more feminine)?

"Once they will be forced to actually work for their life instead of being pampered by oil, more females will have to work, which will change the whole game. "

I'm going to try to keep this short (because drive by posters on this site are a wordy lot).

But I don't think this is going to be possible. Technology has changed a lot. Germany has higher wages than most of the Eurozone, and is the manufacturing center of the EU (such that is, compared to China, Korea, and Japan which German industry is protected from while getting to feast on the Greeks and Portugese).

How exactly would middle easterners be competitive in the world labor market? I think rather they would find that no one wants that product at any price.

Frankly I don't know what they do in the long run. Agriculture really isn't an option. I'm fairly certain they aren't going to be a manufacturing center. What services could they sell?

Tourism... uh I'm thinking this one is a no go. Yeah, yeah, pyramids got it. But I think Islam means no middle eastern nation sans Israel ever makes tourism a revenue center a la Paris and London. Hmmm you know regarding those cities...

Only the German motor trade is protected. Non food, non motorcar tariffs in the EU are well below the WTO averages, usually zero. (Which leaves the UK Brexit negotiators a rather tough job getting better trade deals and still protect the landed gentry – which will happen).

Flynn effect will kick in big time once the Arab women have to go to work.

At utility scale, in sunny countries where the peak load coincides with day time air conditioner demand and desert land is cheap, solar is already economic. Big contracts have been awarded in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

It is also more economic for village electrification in backwaters like Zambia where a diesel generator for a village is prohibitive but a solar panel for a household lead acid battery and phone charging is not.

Already, the main cost of a domestic scale solar installation in US/EU is installation, not the solar panel. Domestic is still not a good deal even in these circumstances so unless and until really cheap domestic scale electrical storage arrives (I will be long dead), domestic solar is not a runner. Utility solar on the other hand will slowly creep out from under the desert sun. Nukes will do the heavy lifting though.

Mr. Rec1men, changing the subject, Lippa et al’s study, “Sex differences in mental rotation and line angle judgments are positively associated with gender equality and economic development across 53 nations”, indicates that Indians have the lowest score in the Visual-spatial ability worldwide. It seems to me that the Indians, even those of the high castes, are like the Jews, excellent for serial memorization and verbal-abstract reasoning and bad in visual spatial reasoning. This is in line with the Talent project, which in the 1960s indicated that Americans of northern European ancestry have the best scores on visual-spatial tests, better than the East Asians. It is also in line with the Wais III standardization, where Finns have better scores on the Block-Design subtest than the Americans, but have lower scores on other sub-tests. It is in line with popular knowledge that northern Europeans and East Asians are better engineers, while Jews and Indians excel at abstract math. On the Johnson and Bouchard scale, do you think Indians are more verbal than rotational (more feminine)?

Nutrition in China has only approached first world levels in the last 15 years. Yes, there are still starving children in China, but their numbers are diminishing quickly. This fact plus the heavy male/female gender imbalance in China will mean females will only procreate with the higher IQ Chinese males (this effect has always been present in East Asia, but it will now be on steroids going forward). You won’t see China’s true IQ potential for another 25 to 40 years. Then yes, it will be maxed out. China +4 (IMHO).

“Meanwhile, dysgenic trends amongst the elites are strong, while the lower IQ, more indigenous underclass continues to expand rapid”
does it? Indigenous people have a high TFR in Brazil, yet they make only a small share of the population. All in all the continent seems to be safe in the hands of whites and blacks

Mr. Rec1men, changing the subject, Lippa et al's study, "Sex differences in mental rotation and line angle judgments are positively associated with gender equality and economic development across 53 nations", indicates that Indians have the lowest score in the Visual-spatial ability worldwide. It seems to me that the Indians, even those of the high castes, are like the Jews, excellent for serial memorization and verbal-abstract reasoning and bad in visual spatial reasoning. This is in line with the Talent project, which in the 1960s indicated that Americans of northern European ancestry have the best scores on visual-spatial tests, better than the East Asians. It is also in line with the Wais III standardization, where Finns have better scores on the Block-Design subtest than the Americans, but have lower scores on other sub-tests. It is in line with popular knowledge that northern Europeans and East Asians are better engineers, while Jews and Indians excel at abstract math. On the Johnson and Bouchard scale, do you think Indians are more verbal than rotational (more feminine)?

So feminine they resisted conversion while the entire Indo European world fell.

Cousin marriage is not uncommon (including many non-Muslim cultures in) SS Africa—1st link—(and parts of non-Muslim India/South Asia), though it varies greatly in prevalence.
Even in cultures with (close) cousin marriage taboos, if communities are small, inbreedin (and thus some inbreeding effects) can (will) occur (and disfavorable recessive traits accumulate) over time. Though (as I understand) much of this does not take long to reverse when more heterogenous unions (within the ethnic group) prevail—To some degree, a trend (toward less inbreeding) also happened in much of Europe and Asia between arround the mid 19-mid 20th centeries.

Though in much of Muslim West Asia (inbreeding) may indeed be (seemingly is) more intense than most other places.

Many of the Western Sahelian/Savannah groups that practice cousin marriage are non-Muslim/mostly so (though that region has more Muslims than some of the other regions listed) e.g.: the Senufo, Diula/Jula, and Wodaabe (most-many) Bambara, Serer, Lobi and Birifor of North Ghana are all non-Muslim (The rest of the Ghanaian groups of course, especially being southern, are also non-Muslim.). Many of the the Muslim groups still contain pagan/only partly-Islamised elements/segments. Some, now mostly-Muslim groups (like the Wolof), have not been Muslim for very long.

Inbreeding rates likely vary greatly in India (both due to religion and ethnic culture—and isolation/population size, etc). I would guess the same is true of the native cultures of latin America for instance. From what I've read, traditionally, inbreeding is not usually too intense in Hindu regions, but marriages are strictly within caste.

But of course overall, the problem seems the greatest in Muslim west Asia.

"Even in cultures with (close) cousin marriage taboos (those without x's under "cousin marriage"), if communities are small..."

"...a trend...also happened in parts of Europe and E. Asia between arround the mid 19-mid 20th centeries—though as many may know, cousin marriage was usually never as common (or had not been for a very long time) in those places ( as it is in the Near East today)"

Cousin marriage is not uncommon (including many non-Muslim cultures in) SS Africa—1st link—(and parts of non-Muslim India/South Asia), though it varies greatly in prevalence.
Even in cultures with (close) cousin marriage taboos, if communities are small, inbreedin (and thus some inbreeding effects) can (will) occur (and disfavorable recessive traits accumulate) over time. Though (as I understand) much of this does not take long to reverse when more heterogenous unions (within the ethnic group) prevail—To some degree, a trend (toward less inbreeding) also happened in much of Europe and Asia between arround the mid 19-mid 20th centeries.

Though in much of Muslim West Asia (inbreeding) may indeed be (seemingly is) more intense than most other places.

Many of the Western Sahelian/Savannah groups that practice cousin marriage are non-Muslim/mostly so (though that region has more Muslims than some of the other regions listed) e.g.: the Senufo, Diula/Jula, and Wodaabe (most-many) Bambara, Serer, Lobi and Birifor of North Ghana are all non-Muslim (The rest of the Ghanaian groups of course, especially being southern, are also non-Muslim.). Many of the the Muslim groups still contain pagan/only partly-Islamised elements/segments. Some, now mostly-Muslim groups (like the Wolof), have not been Muslim for very long.

Inbreeding rates likely vary greatly in India (both due to religion and ethnic culture—and isolation/population size, etc). I would guess the same is true of the native cultures of latin America for instance. From what I’ve read, traditionally, inbreeding is not usually too intense in Hindu regions, but marriages are strictly within caste.

But of course overall, the problem seems the greatest in Muslim west Asia.

Cousin marriage is not uncommon (including many non-Muslim cultures in) SS Africa—1st link—(and parts of non-Muslim India/South Asia), though it varies greatly in prevalence.
Even in cultures with (close) cousin marriage taboos, if communities are small, inbreedin (and thus some inbreeding effects) can (will) occur (and disfavorable recessive traits accumulate) over time. Though (as I understand) much of this does not take long to reverse when more heterogenous unions (within the ethnic group) prevail—To some degree, a trend (toward less inbreeding) also happened in much of Europe and Asia between arround the mid 19-mid 20th centeries.

Though in much of Muslim West Asia (inbreeding) may indeed be (seemingly is) more intense than most other places.

“Even in cultures with (close) cousin marriage taboos (those without x’s under “cousin marriage”), if communities are small…”

“…a trend…also happened in parts of Europe and E. Asia between arround the mid 19-mid 20th centeries—though as many may know, cousin marriage was usually never as common (or had not been for a very long time) in those places ( as it is in the Near East today)”

(according to some calculations, solar is already reaching cost parity with fossil fuels; what happens when countries like Saudi Arabia lose their oil rents?)

As a cautious optimist I would say that it on the one hand will lead to a collapse of the current order and lead to massive losses in living standards in the most oil dependent countries. However, and this is more important, there also lies a chance in it. The end of oil could force the people in these countries to rethink their traditions and scrap them partially due to economic pressure. the Muslim world currently has the lowest female labor force participation rates, which keeps both fertility high and cousin marriage prevalent. Once they will be forced to actually work for their life instead of being pampered by oil, more females will have to work, which will change the whole game. Probably that shock will be so severe, that fertility in the currently most backward islamic countries will drop to extremely low levels.

I own a 5k solar rooftop system in one of the best solar energy locations in North America. Despite that, it would not be an economic capital investment without the massive subsidies and tax credits I received from various governments. Some studies show that solar systems do not even repay the energy cost of building and installing them: they certainly do not come close to the 12-1 ratio necessary to maintain modern civilization.

(1) Why Right Wing Israeli and Religious Jews are supposedly dumber than the rest? Two – three generations ago we all were Haredim, even the grandparents of the extreme left. Everybody has a cousin who is religious and the groups are not impermeable. Haredim spend their lives studying abstruse texts, the great intellects among them are invisible for the outside world. True, the Ethiopian immigration reduced the average, but in a heterogeneous society like Israel the average mean little.

(2) Africans have a large potential. They survive at famine level and the successful practice polygamy – an eugenic situation.

(3) Brazil. The quality of its population has been improving in the last hundred years and it has not stopped.

Although Jason Malloy is a big authority, this claim does go against a lot of what we thought we think we knew about India (though India does seem to have a habit of inverting a lot of what we might call HBD "conventional wisdom"). Still, we can only put a limited weight on a couple of comments on a blog, since we don't know the specific details (sample size, representation, etc) of the studies Malloy looked at.

You overestimate Indian IQ by a huge margin, none of those Oversea Indian groups are even middle class inside India, they are way above average inside India. Your average Indians are simply too poor to move out of India in the first place. Consider 1)the current literacy rate of India is only 74.04%. 2) the current mean years of schooling of Indian is only 4.4 years!!! A college educated Indian is not not simply an elite in India, they are super-duper elite.

I believe 6% of India is of the Brahmin or Merchant caste or of the two smart religious minorities (Jains and Parsis). These groups contribute so much to corporate business in India that I have to imagine their geno IQ is over 100 while that of the rest of the population is substantially below 100.

To fairly represent Indian IQ potential, I think there needs to be separate numbers for these groups.

IQ of 107 as a community sample. 4 zones in Chennai and 12 schools were selected randomly. Sample size of 717. 606 children belonged to families with less than 6500 INR monthly income. And 130 had illiterate mothers. If anything, the selection bias towards socio-economic status is downward.

“Effect of fluoride exposure on Intelligence Quotient {IQ) among 13-15 year old school children of known endemic area of fluorosis, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh.” KM Sudhir, Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry Year : 2009 | Volume : 7 | Issue : 13 | Page : 88-94

“Compared scores of 2 geographically separated Bengali-speaking groups of schoolchildren, grades IX-XI, on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices. 2,836 Ss from Calcutta and 2,100 Ss from Agartala were tested. Ss from Calcutta were superior to those from Agartala by an average of 7 points.”

Lynn reports this as IQ of 83. However, IQ of Calcutta was 87 and Agartala (Burmese/Tibetans/Chinese inhabited area) show IQ of 80. As shown above.

Many of the IQ samples have been standardized on old norms. Like IQ in Chennai is published in 2013, measured in 2005. And standardized on Binet-Kamath scale of 1967 which measures IQ with respect to British 1967 kids.

To remove bias of standardization on old norms, I present the following table:-

Where date of measurement is not given, I have used date of publication as date of measurement. One location of IQ measurement represents one row in the table below.
Flynn effect is used as 2.25 based on

Changes of RPM scores in UK. As IQ data is on people with less than 20 years age, Figure 3 is used. IQ changed from 1938 to 1979 as “50 th percentile of 1979 was equivalent to 70 th percentile of 1938″.

The average IQ at 42 locations of India is 86.41 IQ. With 9/42 IQ samples done in urban areas like Chennai. Note that Delhi is considered as rural area in below calculations as IQ data used for Delhi is in slum area of Delhi, or Nazafgarh (a village outside Delhi) and a hospital where 72% admits where rural.

IQ of urban areas of India based on the IQ data available is: 93 IQ.
IQ of rural areas of India based on the IQ data available is: 85 IQ.

India is 30% urban and 70% rural.

Calculating on urban/rural divide of India, average IQ of India is 87.4 IQ.

As many of the data-set is on fluoride IQ studies on India, IQ of Fluoride free regions is also desired.

IQ of fluoride free regions of India based on IQ data available is 88.73 IQ (rural).

IQ of 107 as a community sample. 4 zones in Chennai and 12 schools were selected randomly. Sample size of 717. 606 children belonged to families with less than 6500 INR monthly income. And 130 had illiterate mothers. If anything, the selection bias towards socio-economic status is downward.

“Effect of fluoride exposure on Intelligence Quotient {IQ) among 13-15 year old school children of known endemic area of fluorosis, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh.” KM Sudhir, Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry Year : 2009 | Volume : 7 | Issue : 13 | Page : 88-94

“Compared scores of 2 geographically separated Bengali-speaking groups of schoolchildren, grades IX-XI, on Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices. 2,836 Ss from Calcutta and 2,100 Ss from Agartala were tested. Ss from Calcutta were superior to those from Agartala by an average of 7 points.”

Lynn reports this as IQ of 83. However, IQ of Calcutta was 87 and Agartala (Burmese/Tibetans/Chinese inhabited area) show IQ of 80. As shown above.

Many of the IQ samples have been standardized on old norms. Like IQ in Chennai is published in 2013, measured in 2005. And standardized on Binet-Kamath scale of 1967 which measures IQ with respect to British 1967 kids.

To remove bias of standardization on old norms, I present the following table:-

Where date of measurement is not given, I have used date of publication as date of measurement. One location of IQ measurement represents one row in the table below.
Flynn effect is used as 2.25 based on

Changes of RPM scores in UK. As IQ data is on people with less than 20 years age, Figure 3 is used. IQ changed from 1938 to 1979 as “50 th percentile of 1979 was equivalent to 70 th percentile of 1938″.

The average IQ at 42 locations of India is 86.41 IQ. With 9/42 IQ samples done in urban areas like Chennai. Note that Delhi is considered as rural area in below calculations as IQ data used for Delhi is in slum area of Delhi, or Nazafgarh (a village outside Delhi) and a hospital where 72% admits where rural.

IQ of urban areas of India based on the IQ data available is: 93 IQ.
IQ of rural areas of India based on the IQ data available is: 85 IQ.

India is 30% urban and 70% rural.

Calculating on urban/rural divide of India, average IQ of India is 87.4 IQ.

As many of the data-set is on fluoride IQ studies on India, IQ of Fluoride free regions is also desired.

IQ of fluoride free regions of India based on IQ data available is 88.73 IQ (rural).

Some conclusions that I draw from the IQ data of India and Richard Lynn's work on Indian states:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZQlIxM3EwSXg4REk/view

1. Uttar Pradesh has the highest non-verbal IQ in India:-

If you read Richard Lynn's data on Indian states. Uttar Pradesh has highest T2 score (score for 3rd grade kids in maths, closely related to IQ) for any state in India.That's full one standard deviation above Delhi. And 0.6 standard deviation above average Indian.

Given the fact that Orissa scored 404 on TIMSS and Rajasthan scored 382 on TIMSS 2003, I can deduce TIMSS score of Uttar Pradesh to be around 460. Which has probably risen since 2003.

In recent IQ samples on Uttar Pradesh, average IQ is around 100. With 62 pc mal-nourishment and 24% fluoride contaminated districts.

Higher average IQ of Uttar Pradesh is also visible in New Delhi (neighboring region of UP).

Homeless people in Delhi in areas near UP have higher IQ than top class families in South West Delhi (bordering Rajasthan).

This is evident from IQ samples:-

Study 1 in Nand Nagari, Delhi (region bordering Uttar Pradesh):-

http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/4/420.full.pdf+html

IQ of kids of slum dwellers in New Delhi living in plot area is 92.4. And shanty houses/homeless is 89.4.

IQ of kids who have attended schools is 96.7 (plot area) and 93.2 (shady houses)

This document covers district wise reading and maths score in districts in Uttar Pradesh.

Average reading and maths score of districts that are near Ganga river is much higher than off shore areas near Himalyan mountain.

Due to the same, average IQ in Uttarakhand (a hilly area near Uttar Pradesh) is below national average as shown by Richard Lynn.

This is because historically the smartest people in India settled at or around Ganga river in Nothern India.

3. Brahmins in UP:-

UP has 12% Brahmins. Population of UP is 200 million which means that 50% of Brahmins in India (25 million) live in Uttar Pradesh.

The higher IQ of Brahmins in USA is wrongly interpreted as a caste difference. The reality is that people in Uttar Pradesh have higher IQ than rest of Indian states (irrespective of caste). And it just has 50% of Brahmin population.

This is wrongly interpreted on HDB that "Brahmins have higher average IQ" which is actually "UP has higher average IQ".

Average IQ of Karntaka extrapolating from average IQ in Hassan is 87.9 IQ.
Average IQ of Karnataka extrapolating from average IQ in Kodagu is 91.2 IQ.

Average IQ of Karnataka even on IQ data published 20 days back is 89 IQ. Which is exactly the same as average IQ calculated using IQ of Mysore, Devangree, Bagalkot. As shown above in my comments.

So you get the basic picture that Indian villages which are decent on nutritional status score 90-95 average IQ as well. Like many of the IQ samples attached above. While the IQ is as low as 70-75 in places where nutritional status is weak and the same is also reflected in district wise test results.

The average IQ at 42 locations of India is 86.41 IQ. With 9/42 IQ samples done in urban areas like Chennai. Note that Delhi is considered as rural area in below calculations as IQ data used for Delhi is in slum area of Delhi, or Nazafgarh (a village outside Delhi) and a hospital where 72% admits where rural.

IQ of urban areas of India based on the IQ data available is: 93 IQ.
IQ of rural areas of India based on the IQ data available is: 85 IQ.

India is 30% urban and 70% rural.

Calculating on urban/rural divide of India, average IQ of India is 87.4 IQ.

As many of the data-set is on fluoride IQ studies on India, IQ of Fluoride free regions is also desired.

IQ of fluoride free regions of India based on IQ data available is 88.73 IQ (rural).

If you read Richard Lynn’s data on Indian states. Uttar Pradesh has highest T2 score (score for 3rd grade kids in maths, closely related to IQ) for any state in India.
That’s full one standard deviation above Delhi. And 0.6 standard deviation above average Indian.

Given the fact that Orissa scored 404 on TIMSS and Rajasthan scored 382 on TIMSS 2003, I can deduce TIMSS score of Uttar Pradesh to be around 460. Which has probably risen since 2003.

In recent IQ samples on Uttar Pradesh, average IQ is around 100. With 62 pc mal-nourishment and 24% fluoride contaminated districts.

Higher average IQ of Uttar Pradesh is also visible in New Delhi (neighboring region of UP).

Homeless people in Delhi in areas near UP have higher IQ than top class families in South West Delhi (bordering Rajasthan).

This document covers district wise reading and maths score in districts in Uttar Pradesh.

Average reading and maths score of districts that are near Ganga river is much higher than off shore areas near Himalyan mountain.

Due to the same, average IQ in Uttarakhand (a hilly area near Uttar Pradesh) is below national average as shown by Richard Lynn.

This is because historically the smartest people in India settled at or around Ganga river in Nothern India.

3. Brahmins in UP:-

UP has 12% Brahmins. Population of UP is 200 million which means that 50% of Brahmins in India (25 million) live in Uttar Pradesh.

The higher IQ of Brahmins in USA is wrongly interpreted as a caste difference. The reality is that people in Uttar Pradesh have higher IQ than rest of Indian states (irrespective of caste). And it just has 50% of Brahmin population.

This is wrongly interpreted on HDB that “Brahmins have higher average IQ” which is actually “UP has higher average IQ”.

Bankura has 51.7 percentile kids accomplishing maths task. And 59.5 on reading.
North Parag average is 67.6 reading. And 45.1 on maths.

However, iodine study as cited above is only done in government schools. And it is well known that kids in private schools in India show higher IQ.

So, IQ in Bankura district is closer to 89 IQ as low side sampled IQ shows 86.325.

Average maths score of West Bengal will be marginally above the average in North Parag, and 2 IQ below Bankura as difference between average score for WB and average score for Bankura is 6 percentile which is 2 IQ.

Average IQ in West Bengal will be 90.2 IQ.

Based on Lynn's work:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZQlIxM3EwSXg4REk/view

Average maths score of West Bengal is 260.5. Around 3 IQ above national average.

So, you have good consistency with IQ data. That average India will score around 87-90 IQ.

Same projections from IQ data in Punjab, Chandigarh, MP and Gujarat to rest of India based on average state wise score and district wise reading and maths score.

Average IQ in Kolkata:-

Kolkata had 2 IQ samples. One cited by Lynn and one other cited above, both show average IQ of 87. With good enough sample size.

In second sample, 57% kids were undernourished. And 22% population was above 120 IQ.

This is because Kolkata is a major city and pulls in top class immigrants from all over India.

I conclude that long term Kolkata will be close to 100 IQ. As 57% undernourishment will push the average IQ by good amount, 6 points at the bare minimum and Kolkata will keep pulling high skilled immigrants from all over India.

Bankura has 51.7 percentile kids accomplishing maths task. And 59.5 on reading.
North Parag average is 67.6 reading. And 45.1 on maths.

However, iodine study as cited above is only done in government schools. And it is well known that kids in private schools in India show higher IQ.

So, IQ in Bankura district is closer to 89 IQ as low side sampled IQ shows 86.325.

Average maths score of West Bengal will be marginally above the average in North Parag, and 2 IQ below Bankura as difference between average score for WB and average score for Bankura is 6 percentile which is 2 IQ.

Average maths score of West Bengal is 260.5. Around 3 IQ above national average.

So, you have good consistency with IQ data. That average India will score around 87-90 IQ.

Same projections from IQ data in Punjab, Chandigarh, MP and Gujarat to rest of India based on average state wise score and district wise reading and maths score.

Average IQ in Kolkata:-

Kolkata had 2 IQ samples. One cited by Lynn and one other cited above, both show average IQ of 87. With good enough sample size.

In second sample, 57% kids were undernourished. And 22% population was above 120 IQ.

This is because Kolkata is a major city and pulls in top class immigrants from all over India.

I conclude that long term Kolkata will be close to 100 IQ. As 57% undernourishment will push the average IQ by good amount, 6 points at the bare minimum and Kolkata will keep pulling high skilled immigrants from all over India.

Orissa participated in TIMSS 2003 and average score was 404. England on which IQ is generally normalised scored 492 same year.

Rajasthan scored 384.

Lynn's work shows that:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZQlIxM3EwSXg4REk/view

Mean maths score in Orissa is 247.5. And Rajasthan is 242.

Orissa is 0.12 standard deviation above Rajasthan or 2 IQ.

So, IQ in Orissa is close to 86 at the moment. And is also confirmed by TIMSS 2003 score on Orissa.

Average score in Orissa is below average Indian as per Lynn, etc. by 1 IQ point.

So, again you get the same IQ projection that average Indian will score 87-90 IQ.

IQ in Karnataka:-

Average IQ in Karnataka based on IQ samples cited above is 80.15 IQ.

Average IQ was done in 2 villages in Devangree, 3 villages in Mysore, 2 villages in Bagalkot and in a suburb in Bellary.

In Bellary sample, only Scheduled Tribes were selected.Bellary showed IQ of 100.6 for healthy group (non-stunted). And 6 points below for stunted group.

As Bellary has appx. 60% under-nourished, average IQ is close to 96. As test was done on WISC, both verbal and non-verbal IQ is reported.

In Devangree, two government schools were selected as mentioned in IQ sample above. The average IQ is close to 79.9 non-verbal IQ. As government schools show lower IQ and is a downward sample, the average IQ is likely to be close to 82.9 non-verbal IQ.

In Mysore, both government and normal schools were selected and average IQ is close to 81.3 IQ.

In Bagalkot, the average IQ was found to be 74.4 for non-fluoride group and 64.4 for those facing dental fluorosis. As majority people don't face dental fluorosis, I will take average IQ to be 72 in Bagalkot, Karnataka.

Average maths score for Bagalkot is 19 percentile below average for Karnataka.Average maths score for Mysore is 13.25 percentile below average for Karnataka.Average maths score for Devangree is 12.95 percentile below average for Karnataka.Average maths score for Bellary is 7.95 percentile below average for Karnataka.

So, you get consistency that Bellary scores highest among these 4 districts in Karnataka followed by Devangree followed by Mysore with Bagalkot at the bottom. Consistent with IQ data on Karnataka on these 4 districts.

IQ in Chimoga, Chikmanglur, Chitradurg, Dakshin and Uttar Bidar will be on higher side based on district wise reading and maths score.

So, all districts where IQ test is done score below Karnataka average on reading and maths.

To calculate the IQ of Karnataka, I will use normal distribution tool.

That average score in Karnataka is 255 on maths. Which is just 0.1 standard deviation above national average.

So, again you get the same projection that entire India will score 87-90 average IQ.

Which is consistent if you look into the IQ data on Chandigarh, Punjab, West Benagal, Gujarat, Orissa, Rajasthan and MP and try to find the average IQ of India based on district wise and state wise scores.

Bankura has 51.7 percentile kids accomplishing maths task. And 59.5 on reading.
North Parag average is 67.6 reading. And 45.1 on maths.

However, iodine study as cited above is only done in government schools. And it is well known that kids in private schools in India show higher IQ.

So, IQ in Bankura district is closer to 89 IQ as low side sampled IQ shows 86.325.

Average maths score of West Bengal will be marginally above the average in North Parag, and 2 IQ below Bankura as difference between average score for WB and average score for Bankura is 6 percentile which is 2 IQ.

Average IQ in West Bengal will be 90.2 IQ.

Based on Lynn's work:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZQlIxM3EwSXg4REk/view

Average maths score of West Bengal is 260.5. Around 3 IQ above national average.

So, you have good consistency with IQ data. That average India will score around 87-90 IQ.

Same projections from IQ data in Punjab, Chandigarh, MP and Gujarat to rest of India based on average state wise score and district wise reading and maths score.

Average IQ in Kolkata:-

Kolkata had 2 IQ samples. One cited by Lynn and one other cited above, both show average IQ of 87. With good enough sample size.

In second sample, 57% kids were undernourished. And 22% population was above 120 IQ.

This is because Kolkata is a major city and pulls in top class immigrants from all over India.

I conclude that long term Kolkata will be close to 100 IQ. As 57% undernourishment will push the average IQ by good amount, 6 points at the bare minimum and Kolkata will keep pulling high skilled immigrants from all over India.

TBC

IQ in Orissa:-

No IQ data.

Orissa participated in TIMSS 2003 and average score was 404. England on which IQ is generally normalised scored 492 same year.

So, IQ in Orissa is close to 86 at the moment. And is also confirmed by TIMSS 2003 score on Orissa.

Average score in Orissa is below average Indian as per Lynn, etc. by 1 IQ point.

So, again you get the same IQ projection that average Indian will score 87-90 IQ.

IQ in Karnataka:-

Average IQ in Karnataka based on IQ samples cited above is 80.15 IQ.

Average IQ was done in 2 villages in Devangree, 3 villages in Mysore, 2 villages in Bagalkot and in a suburb in Bellary.

In Bellary sample, only Scheduled Tribes were selected.
Bellary showed IQ of 100.6 for healthy group (non-stunted). And 6 points below for stunted group.

As Bellary has appx. 60% under-nourished, average IQ is close to 96. As test was done on WISC, both verbal and non-verbal IQ is reported.

In Devangree, two government schools were selected as mentioned in IQ sample above. The average IQ is close to 79.9 non-verbal IQ. As government schools show lower IQ and is a downward sample, the average IQ is likely to be close to 82.9 non-verbal IQ.

In Mysore, both government and normal schools were selected and average IQ is close to 81.3 IQ.

In Bagalkot, the average IQ was found to be 74.4 for non-fluoride group and 64.4 for those facing dental fluorosis. As majority people don’t face dental fluorosis, I will take average IQ to be 72 in Bagalkot, Karnataka.

Average maths score for Bagalkot is 19 percentile below average for Karnataka.
Average maths score for Mysore is 13.25 percentile below average for Karnataka.
Average maths score for Devangree is 12.95 percentile below average for Karnataka.
Average maths score for Bellary is 7.95 percentile below average for Karnataka.

So, you get consistency that Bellary scores highest among these 4 districts in Karnataka followed by Devangree followed by Mysore with Bagalkot at the bottom. Consistent with IQ data on Karnataka on these 4 districts.

IQ in Chimoga, Chikmanglur, Chitradurg, Dakshin and Uttar Bidar will be on higher side based on district wise reading and maths score.

So, all districts where IQ test is done score below Karnataka average on reading and maths.

To calculate the IQ of Karnataka, I will use normal distribution tool.

That average score in Karnataka is 255 on maths. Which is just 0.1 standard deviation above national average.

So, again you get the same projection that entire India will score 87-90 average IQ.

Which is consistent if you look into the IQ data on Chandigarh, Punjab, West Benagal, Gujarat, Orissa, Rajasthan and MP and try to find the average IQ of India based on district wise and state wise scores.

Study 1 is done on homeless people in East Delhi in area bordering UP. Showing average to be 88 overall and 93 for those kids who attend schools.

As it is extreme downward sampling of population as they are measuring IQ of homeless people (bottom 1% of socio-economic status), average in East Delhi will 8 points higher at 96 IQ.

Study 2 cited above is on government schools showing average IQ to be 77.2. Average will be 80.2 as government schools score 3 points below average population.

Study 3 is cited by Lynn showing average IQ of 93 on upper end population on socio-economic status. Average will be 8 points below as mentioned by Lynn in his book. So, average IQ is close to 85 in West Delhi.

So, in 2010 the average score in Tamil Nadu for 15 yo should be 24.5 percentile below national average in 2010. 23.9 percentile below on reading. And 25 percentile below on maths. Based on state wise reading and maths score.

PISA showed 77.5 maths IQ, 75.6 verbal IQ. In Tamil Nadu. SD of IQ was 17 in PISA of TN.
Average score for all India average is 25 percentile higher on maths, 23.9 percentile higher on reading. As compared to TN. Based on state wise reading and maths results.

Using normal distribution calculator, average IQ of India extrapolating from PISA of TN will be 86.5 verbal IQ, 89 non-verbal IQ.

So, you get the same IQ projection on India that average IQ is 87-90 based on all IQ and test data on India (TIMSS, PISA, IQ reports).

Average scores for Tamil Nadu has increased and can be seen in ASER link of TN. And in 2015, the scores are same as national average in 2015 as can be seen in Lynn's work.

Orissa participated in TIMSS 2003 and average score was 404. England on which IQ is generally normalised scored 492 same year.

Rajasthan scored 384.

Lynn's work shows that:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZQlIxM3EwSXg4REk/view

Mean maths score in Orissa is 247.5. And Rajasthan is 242.

Orissa is 0.12 standard deviation above Rajasthan or 2 IQ.

So, IQ in Orissa is close to 86 at the moment. And is also confirmed by TIMSS 2003 score on Orissa.

Average score in Orissa is below average Indian as per Lynn, etc. by 1 IQ point.

So, again you get the same IQ projection that average Indian will score 87-90 IQ.

IQ in Karnataka:-

Average IQ in Karnataka based on IQ samples cited above is 80.15 IQ.

Average IQ was done in 2 villages in Devangree, 3 villages in Mysore, 2 villages in Bagalkot and in a suburb in Bellary.

In Bellary sample, only Scheduled Tribes were selected.Bellary showed IQ of 100.6 for healthy group (non-stunted). And 6 points below for stunted group.

As Bellary has appx. 60% under-nourished, average IQ is close to 96. As test was done on WISC, both verbal and non-verbal IQ is reported.

In Devangree, two government schools were selected as mentioned in IQ sample above. The average IQ is close to 79.9 non-verbal IQ. As government schools show lower IQ and is a downward sample, the average IQ is likely to be close to 82.9 non-verbal IQ.

In Mysore, both government and normal schools were selected and average IQ is close to 81.3 IQ.

In Bagalkot, the average IQ was found to be 74.4 for non-fluoride group and 64.4 for those facing dental fluorosis. As majority people don't face dental fluorosis, I will take average IQ to be 72 in Bagalkot, Karnataka.

Average maths score for Bagalkot is 19 percentile below average for Karnataka.Average maths score for Mysore is 13.25 percentile below average for Karnataka.Average maths score for Devangree is 12.95 percentile below average for Karnataka.Average maths score for Bellary is 7.95 percentile below average for Karnataka.

So, you get consistency that Bellary scores highest among these 4 districts in Karnataka followed by Devangree followed by Mysore with Bagalkot at the bottom. Consistent with IQ data on Karnataka on these 4 districts.

IQ in Chimoga, Chikmanglur, Chitradurg, Dakshin and Uttar Bidar will be on higher side based on district wise reading and maths score.

So, all districts where IQ test is done score below Karnataka average on reading and maths.

To calculate the IQ of Karnataka, I will use normal distribution tool.

That average score in Karnataka is 255 on maths. Which is just 0.1 standard deviation above national average.

So, again you get the same projection that entire India will score 87-90 average IQ.

Which is consistent if you look into the IQ data on Chandigarh, Punjab, West Benagal, Gujarat, Orissa, Rajasthan and MP and try to find the average IQ of India based on district wise and state wise scores.

Average IQ in New Delhi:-

Based on IQ samples in New Delhi in 5 locations, average IQ is 83.

Study 1 is done on homeless people in East Delhi in area bordering UP. Showing average to be 88 overall and 93 for those kids who attend schools.

As it is extreme downward sampling of population as they are measuring IQ of homeless people (bottom 1% of socio-economic status), average in East Delhi will 8 points higher at 96 IQ.

Study 2 cited above is on government schools showing average IQ to be 77.2. Average will be 80.2 as government schools score 3 points below average population.

Study 3 is cited by Lynn showing average IQ of 93 on upper end population on socio-economic status. Average will be 8 points below as mentioned by Lynn in his book. So, average IQ is close to 85 in West Delhi.

So, in 2010 the average score in Tamil Nadu for 15 yo should be 24.5 percentile below national average in 2010. 23.9 percentile below on reading. And 25 percentile below on maths. Based on state wise reading and maths score.

PISA showed 77.5 maths IQ, 75.6 verbal IQ. In Tamil Nadu. SD of IQ was 17 in PISA of TN.
Average score for all India average is 25 percentile higher on maths, 23.9 percentile higher on reading. As compared to TN. Based on state wise reading and maths results.

Using normal distribution calculator, average IQ of India extrapolating from PISA of TN will be 86.5 verbal IQ, 89 non-verbal IQ.

So, you get the same IQ projection on India that average IQ is 87-90 based on all IQ and test data on India (TIMSS, PISA, IQ reports).

Average scores for Tamil Nadu has increased and can be seen in ASER link of TN. And in 2015, the scores are same as national average in 2015 as can be seen in Lynn’s work.

Study 1 is done on homeless people in East Delhi in area bordering UP. Showing average to be 88 overall and 93 for those kids who attend schools.

As it is extreme downward sampling of population as they are measuring IQ of homeless people (bottom 1% of socio-economic status), average in East Delhi will 8 points higher at 96 IQ.

Study 2 cited above is on government schools showing average IQ to be 77.2. Average will be 80.2 as government schools score 3 points below average population.

Study 3 is cited by Lynn showing average IQ of 93 on upper end population on socio-economic status. Average will be 8 points below as mentioned by Lynn in his book. So, average IQ is close to 85 in West Delhi.

So, in 2010 the average score in Tamil Nadu for 15 yo should be 24.5 percentile below national average in 2010. 23.9 percentile below on reading. And 25 percentile below on maths. Based on state wise reading and maths score.

PISA showed 77.5 maths IQ, 75.6 verbal IQ. In Tamil Nadu. SD of IQ was 17 in PISA of TN.
Average score for all India average is 25 percentile higher on maths, 23.9 percentile higher on reading. As compared to TN. Based on state wise reading and maths results.

Using normal distribution calculator, average IQ of India extrapolating from PISA of TN will be 86.5 verbal IQ, 89 non-verbal IQ.

So, you get the same IQ projection on India that average IQ is 87-90 based on all IQ and test data on India (TIMSS, PISA, IQ reports).

Average scores for Tamil Nadu has increased and can be seen in ASER link of TN. And in 2015, the scores are same as national average in 2015 as can be seen in Lynn's work.

Average IQ in Maharashtra:-

Average IQ in Pune is 92.33 based on 2 IQ samples cited above.

To see average in Maharashtra, I will use district wise reading and maths results:-

Average IQ of Karntaka extrapolating from average IQ in Hassan is 87.9 IQ.
Average IQ of Karnataka extrapolating from average IQ in Kodagu is 91.2 IQ.

Average IQ of Karnataka even on IQ data published 20 days back is 89 IQ. Which is exactly the same as average IQ calculated using IQ of Mysore, Devangree, Bagalkot. As shown above in my comments.

So you get the basic picture that Indian villages which are decent on nutritional status score 90-95 average IQ as well. Like many of the IQ samples attached above. While the IQ is as low as 70-75 in places where nutritional status is weak and the same is also reflected in district wise test results.

Total 19 million people are born worldwide with IDD related mental damage and 6.6 million of those are in India.

As a general rule of thumb, iodine consumption increases the IQ by 13.5 points. And iodine related mental damage decreases the IQ by 25 IQ points.

So, IQ of Europe should increase by 5 points, India by 4 points, mid-East and South East Asia by 5 points, USA and East Asia should stay flat.

Rather as a matter of fact, IQ in China has increased from significantly in many provinces due to iodine consumption. Here is a study from China in old days when iodine deficiency status was not up to the mark:-

This is an IQ study from rural areas of China on iodine sufficient and iodine deficient regions:-

I would guess that IQ in mid-East (especially Iran and Saudi Arabia) will increase by 6-7 points while in India, it will increase by 4-5 points due to de-fluoridation drive. Europe and East Asia would be constant.

Poor pregnancy diets:-

IQ can change by 20 points due to diets during pregnancy. Only poor world regions have any scope of increase on that matter.

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